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AI can read plant DNA. That could transform agriculture and help feed the world
Plant DNA has become a frontier for artificial intelligence, with large language models turning genetic sequences into interpretable content for ...
‘Last of Us’ in real life? Drug-resistant ‘super fungus’ lurking in the Himalayan mountains
Researchers collected the disease-causing super fungus, Aspergillus fumigatus, from the Three Parallel Rivers region in Yunnan, China ...
How blinking contributed to human evolution
Researchers investigated the reasons behind the mudskipper’s blinking behavior by considering the roles that blinking plays in humans ...
Edible insects: Cultures around the globe eat environmentally friendly bug protein. Why shouldn’t the United States?
Although edible insects are far from common in American and European cuisines, over 3,000 ethnic groups in 130 countries eat them regularly ...
What causes aging? AI analysis of humans, rats and fish reveals how genes influence lifespan
By using artificial intelligence to analyze data from a wide variety of tissues – collected from humans, mice, rats, and ...
Human and octopus brains share key similarities
The octopus and human brain share similar transposons, or “jumping genes” – a type of genes that can move from ...
‘Dating, mating, rating and hating’: Male-female sex differences rooted in more than 1,000 brain-related genes in mice — and almost certainly in humans
According to a new study led by Stanford University and published in the journal Cell, male and female mouse brains ...